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Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 787" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Three of the flights had flown above the Kármán line (edge of space), and one was intended to do so. In each of these accidents, the entire crew was killed. As of December 2023, a total of 676 people have flown into space and 19 of them have died. This sets the current statistical fatality rate at 2.8 percent.
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
The aircraft was a Boeing 787-9, MSN 38461, registered as CC-BGG, that was manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in 2015. It first flew around December 2015 and was equipped with two Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines. [6] [7] The aircraft had operated the outbound flight, LA801, from Santiago to Sydney via Auckland. [8]
Metal fatigue and aircraft design flaw 6 Structural failure of the right horizontal stabiliser due to metal fatigue and aircraft design flaw 1978-06-26 Helikopter Service Flight 165: North Sea, Norway Sikorsky S-61: Fatigue 18 Rotor blade loosened after fatigue to the knuckle joint: crashed into the sea [10] 1979-05-25 American Airlines Flight 191
It predates the Boeing 737 Max, the type that was involved in two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed all 346 people on board those flights. The 737 Max was grounded for almost two years.
A search team investigating the deadly crash of a U.S. military aircraft in the sea off Japan last week has found wreckage and the remains of five missing crew members, the Air Force said Monday ...
The accident was the third airplane crash in the United States between 1975 and 1985 where more than 100 people were killed due to a microburst. These crashes likely helped to drive the need to ...